30 YEARS: Sandra Kogut | 18th Festival

The artist, who won a prize at the 1996 Fesetival, reminisces on the early days of video in Brazil, in the 1980s, and discusses the role of Videobrasil, and the opportunity to create a piece of work at the Montbéliard Festival in 1989

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Stephen Vitiello | 10th Festival

Stephen Vitiello explains the notion of poetry in his work, shown at the 10th edition of the Festival, in 1994, and discusses the poetical relationship between sound and image

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Rob Rombout | 10th Festival

The Netherlands’ Rob Rombout expounds on his reasons for making documentaries. More than portraying facts, his intention is to put forth a poetic view of reality, to convert the ordinary into extraordinary

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Jorge La Ferla | 10th Festival

The Argentinean curator Jorge la Ferla, who attended the 1994 edition, reviews the myriad poetics constructed from narrative and phenomenological image codes

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Wesley Duke Lee | 9th Festival

To Wesley Duke Lee, the artist must intervene if video is to become something more than just "a bunch of hardware that is good for nothing..."

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Walter Avancini | 8th Festival

"Using our reality in a creative way,” says TV director Walter Avancini on discussing South-North exchange in video production

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Jean-Marie Duhard | 8th Festival

The curator explains the role of the independent producer in France as a sort of middleman between the artist and television, and lists the difficulties encountered on publicizing video in the country

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Fernando Barbosa Lima | 8th Festival

The TV director discusses the first independent productions featured on Brazilian television, highlighting the role of the Repórter Esso program, aired on TV Tupi prior to the ‘iron years’

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Poesia é risco, by Augusto de Campo, Cid Campos and Walter Silveira | 11th Festival

Created in 1996, the "verbivocovisual event", as described by the authors, mixed poetry, electronic music, singing, and video footage

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Bardo, by Marcondes Dourado | 11th Festival

In this performance presented in 1996, Marcondes Dourado combines dancing, video and theater, inspired by Antonin Artaud’s texts about the experience of seclusion in psychiatric facilities

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